Word: hsct
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...speech given in December 1992, NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin called high speed civil transport (HSCT) research NASA's first priority for the aeronautics industry. The proposed HSCT will carry 300 people over a range of 6000 miles at almost two and a half times the speed of sound (Mach...
...This HSCT would go twice as far [as the current Concorde can] with three times as many people at one-10th the ticket price and not damage the ozone layer," Goldin said. "And with its speed, it could do twice the work of a subsonic aircraft...
...Boeing is actively studying HSCTs," says Randy Harrison, spokesperson for the Boeing HSCT program. "We first proposed supersonic transports in the 1970s, and we had to stop our program when federal funding was canceled, but we kept a few people to continue to work on the issues...
...company. Aerospace firms are forming joint ventures and seeking government subsidies to foot the research bill. NASA is spending $284 million over five years to develop technologies that U.S. companies can apply to their work on the HSCT. Rival U.S. aircraft builders Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have teamed up to design an airframe, as have British Aerospace and France's Aerospatiale, the same partnership that built the Concorde. American jet-engine builder Pratt & Whitney is working closely with its nemesis, General Electric, to build a power plant that is quieter, more economical and clean burning. France's Snecma and Britain...
Like shrewd roulette players, the Japanese are spreading their money around, spending millions on overseas research projects. Since the country lacks the experience to build an HSCT on its own, the Japanese are investing "just enough in both European and American projects so they can jump in with the winner and become partners," says John Swihart, a U.S. aerospace consultant...